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“Is there any nostalgia more powerful than the exile’s passion for the food of home?” That was the question U.K. Guardian writer Alex Renton asked back in April on his blog Word of Mouth. He went on, “Koreans dream of kimchi, East Africans write poems about ugali; Brits abroad get Marmite DHL-ed to them.”

Another blog noshtalgia.blogspot.com is... Read more

Last fall, the Burlington Business Association and the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce announced the Queen City's new official slogan: The West Coast of New England.

Seven Days video correspondent Louis "Lou" Armistead asks his fellow UVM students to weigh in on this spiffy new motto. Not surprisingly, the California kida hate it.

So how does Burlington compare to the real West Coast? Lou grabs a surfboard and heads down to North Beach to find out. Cowabunga, dude!

Eyeing an oversized "Big Kahuna" burger in Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson voiced the dilemma of an omnivore in love with someone who shuns meat. "Me . . . I can't usually get 'em, 'cause my girlfriend's a vegetarian, which pretty much makes me a vegetarian," he lamented. "But I do love the taste of a good burger."... Read more

Finding the right chef is a tall order for any restaurant. But it's almost impossible when the dining room is on a dirt road 8 miles from the nearest town, and the job includes making breakfast and dinner for up to 40 discriminating guests every day, singlehandedly. More humbling duties: In the winter, hungry skiers require huge vats of soup and multiple batches of chocolate-chip cookies. In the summer, there are weddings to cook for — up to 11 in a four-month period.... Read more

Considering my husband and I first chased each other on the snow-covered steeps of Utah and grew starry-eyed over tequila chasers at the local dive bar, we were never the right customers for typical romance packages. In 2004, we spent our honeymoon climbing volcanoes, riding horses and rafting rivers in Chile instead of holding hands on a beach or getting all googly-eyed at a B&B.... Read more

It ain't the Caribbean, but Lake Champlain lends itself just as well to aquatic eating — in the summer, that is.... Read more

This video is part of a package of stories exploring life on the US-Canadian border.

From the introduction to our "Crossing the Line" package:... Read more

Life has changed in many ways since 9/11, not the least of which is compromising, or scrapping altogether, certain freedoms in the name of homeland security. For average, non-trouble-making Americans, though, this manifests primarily in another “inconvenient truth” of modern times. That is, the hassle of long lines, greater scrutiny and, sometimes, intimidating interactions with authorities when we try to get from one place to another. Nowhere is this more evident than at an international border.... Read more

Cuffed and Stuffed
I was coming back from Canada earlier this month after a shopping trip. When we got to the border, there were four of us in the car — me, my wife, her neighbor and her daughter. We handed them our papers, passports and such. Then the officer said to me, “Can I see your hands please.” I showed him my hands, and he asked me to step out of the car. Of course, I did.... Read more

Acuriously intense blanket of fog made nearly the whole journey from Montréal to the Highgate Springs border entrance a hyper-vigilant, steering-wheel-clenching affair. I approached the U.S. Customs station at 1 in the morning on November 21 with relief, if only because it was the first truly well-lit area I’d seen for 40 miles. Winding around the pylons and creeping up to the single open checkpoint lane, I saw that not a single car was ahead of me.... Read more